{"id":9079,"date":"2012-07-21T23:54:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T03:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=9079"},"modified":"2012-07-21T23:54:22","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T03:54:22","slug":"saturday-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=9079","title":{"rendered":"Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I don’t quite know how it happened, but somehow I convinced myself that I’d had my car inspected back in April. That’s when it was supposed<\/i> to be inspected, which means that for the past three months I’m just lucky I never got a ticket. My mistake was revealed last week when I tried to renew my car’s registration with the state of New York and discovered they didn’t have a yearly inspection on file. I’m not sure what it says about me — or this weblog — to admit that I combed through my blog’s archives to see if I’d made any mention of having the inspection done in April, or that I was prepared to send the New York DMV photographic proof of what in retrospect was an expired sticker. But I found no mention in the archives, and the sticker was<\/i> expired, so I realized I’d have to bring the car in a few months late.<\/p>\n

Which I did this morning. I got up around 7, which is kind of the last thing I want to do on a Saturday if I can help it, and drove to the auto-body shop in Mineola. It used to be you could get a train back from Mineola right after that, the station just a block’s short walk from the shop, but a couple of years ago the LIRR changed the schedule just enough to make that all but impossible. So I had to wait around for about half an hour, and then get a train to the station one stop after<\/i> mine and walk home. (That’s just how the stations are set up: Mineola’s maybe an hour-plus walk away from my station, but the next station after that’s only about a twenty-minute walk away.)<\/p>\n

It’s okay. The rain the other day really did cool things down, and it wasn’t an unpleasant morning walk. I knew I’d have to do it, so I had my iPod along with me.<\/p>\n

When I got home, I called the air conditioner repair service to get a window on when they’d be returning the AC they took with them on Tuesday. Between 9:30 and 11:30, I was told, which basically gave me enough time to take a shower, have breakfast, and pull out all the plastic and plywood I’d used to cover up the big gaping hole in the living room wall. I did my best on Tuesday to disguise the hole, and make it exceptionally difficult for the dog to get out through it, or for burglars to poke their heads in. I even slid some furniture in front of it, but I have to admit I was glad to be getting rid of it finally.<\/p>\n

Putting the air conditioner back in the hole took all of fifteen, maybe twenty minutes. And immediately you could tell that it was working. I paid and tipped the two guys, and they went on their way.<\/p>\n

Then I went and picked up my car. I had to take the train back to Mineola, but luckily the LIRR makes a few other options available during the day. (Like one train every hour.) I got the car, after its inspection and oil change, and then I went grocery shopping.<\/p>\n

Then I came home, napped a little, read some comics<\/a>, and watched an episode of Touching Evil<\/a>. (I was familiar with the US remake, which was well received but canceled right away, but I’d never seen the original British version. Apparently it’s now on Netflix.)<\/p>\n

This evening, I watched Underworld: Evolution<\/a>. Which was not very good. I was surprised back in January<\/a> by how much I kind of liked the first movie in the series, but this was definitely a case of diminishing returns<\/a>. And, pretty as Kate Beckinsale may be, I’m not sure I can bring myself to watch the next two.<\/p>\n

So, anyway, that was my Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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